Ventilated-suspensory-crotch garment.



E. OPPE NHEIM. VENTILATED SUSPENSORY CROTCH GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.5-19l5.

1 ,@55,'2@ Patented Feb; 5, 1918.

bar s'rarns nae-nan ELI OPPENHEIM, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOB T0OPPENHEIM, OBERNDOEF & 00., INC, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A GQRZPORATION0F MARYLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1918.

Application filed October 5, 1915. Serial No. 54,114.

an underwear union suit for men that shall have an improved closed butventilated crotch. V v

A further object is to provide for men an underwear bifurcated garmenthaving a closed crotch adapted as a suspensory.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein,

Figure 1, is a front view of the garment.

.Fig. 2, is a view of those parts of the garment including the seat andsuspensory crotch spread fiat, to show the crotch structure, and the twolegs oppositely extended.

Fig. 3, shows a cross-section of the suspensory crotch on the line 33 ofFig. 2, but drawn on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4, is a view of a fragmentary specimen of fabric of which theventilated crotch is composed.

For the purpose only of illustration an underwear garment is shown thatis sleeveless, but it will be understood that this is immaterial and hasnothing to do with the features of the present invention, and there foreit is clear a garment embodyingthis invention may have sleeves.

The garment, in the present instance, is shown with a front verticalflap-opening 5, which is fastened to the closed position by buttons andbutton-holes. This front flap 5, extends from. the neck-band 6, to theclosed crotch 7. The back of the garment, see Fig. 2, may have anypreferred out or construction. The lower part of the back must ofcourse, have the necessary fullness for a seat, and said lower part isprovided with a suitable flap-opening 8, the lower end of whose flap 9,is attached to the said closed crotch 7 The formation of the seat 13,the two legs 14, and the relative position thereto of the closed crotch7, is shown in Fig. 2. c

The material or fabric of which the crotch is made is of a foraminatedcharacter, that is, the fabric is so made as to form many small holes oropenings which permit the passage of air and serve to ventilate. Theparticular manner of weaving or forming the ventilating openings in thefabric is no part of the present invention; it is only desired thatthere shall be such openings as will freely permit the passage of air.Fig. 4 of the drawing is therefore intended to illustrate only one formof fabric struc ture that would be suitable.

The crotch-piece 7, has one edge attached in the inseam 10, and also tothe lower end of the said front flap 5; the opposite edge of thecrotch-piece is attached to the lower end of the back-fiap 9. A centerband 11, extends crosswise of the crotch-piece from the front flap 5, tothe back-flap 9; this band divides the crotch-piece into equal parts 12,12, which have a downward sag, as shown in Fig. 3. The said two parts12, sag down ward because they are free of the tension to which thecenter of the crotch-piece is subjected by the said band 11.

Having described my invention what I claim is,

1. A union undergarment having a body portion, a drawers portion withlegs which latter are joined by a straight inseam that extends from theend of one leg up to and forming a single seam across the crotch andthen extends down the other leg, said garment having a front placketextending from the neck of the garment down to and secured in the singleinseam at the crotch, the garment also having a posterior opening withplacket flaps, and an insert having a straight front edge a narrowerstraight rear edge and inclined edges extending from the narrower rearedge to the wider front edge,the wider front edge of the insert beingsecured in the single inseam while the narrower rear edge and the lowerends of the posterior placket-flaps are stitched together and the twoinclined side edges of the insert being stitched to the seatot thedrawers portion at the rear of the sin-- gle inseam.

2. A bifurcated undergarment having two legs each joined by an inseamthat extends uninterruptedly up one leg across the crotch and down theother leg with a front opening Whose lower end terminates gt saidinseam, said garment also having a posterior opening with a flap whichletter terminates at-a point to the rear and spaced from the saidinseam, a band extending from the lower end of the front opening to andconnected with the lower end of the flap of the posterior opening and aninsert in the crotch at the resrof the inseainend extending at oppositesides of the said crotch band.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence two Witnesses ELIOPPENHEIM.

Witnesses CHAS. B. MANN, BERTHA K. WALTER Copies of this patent may beobtained {or five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,Washington, D. G.

